Re: Styling vertical text, initial article and interactive tests

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 05:10 +0800, Bobby Tung wrote:
> > Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> 於 2015年5月27日 上午3:00 寫道：
> > 
> > On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 13:08 -0400, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> > Questions such as where the underline goes if you have
> > an English word inside an Arabic phrase set vertically in Chinese 
> > do come up in practice, e.g. in Malaysia.
> 
> That's funny. In Traditional Chinese, there are two punctuations to 
> mark up people's name, place name and book title, one is underline 
> and wavy underline is another.[1]
> 
> In vertical writing, they are always on the left side to characters. 
> So usually followed the rule, left side.

One problem comes when you have sideways English (say) - now the 
underline to the left is on top of the English rather than underneath. 
Or, if you have a single Chinese character inside that span of 
sideways English, and the English is underlined for emphasis.

So, unfortunately, there probably isn't a single answer for all 
situations.

I should try to dig up the examples we were sent for the XSL-FO work, 
which came from implementors and their customers.

Thanks for the example!

Liam

> 
> [1]:  
> http://e.share.photo.xuite.net/oscarsun72/1ead106/11470455/538533007_m.jpg
> 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Liam
> > 
> >

Received on Wednesday, 27 May 2015 02:22:22 UTC